Author: VETH, Bas.
Title: Het leven in Nederlandsch-Indië. 3e druk.
Description: Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, (ca. 1910). Original boards. 166 pp. 'The title of his book, Life in the Dutch East Indies, seems innocent enough, but at the turn of the century it caused the blood of many people in the Indies to boil. A contemporary accused him of having 'dipped his pen in vitriolic acid'. Indeed, no book on the Indies so unreasonable and so rancorous as this has ever appeared before or since' (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p. 134. Cat. KITLV p.259 (second edition); Buur, Persoonlijke documenten, 554 (second edition).
Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia belletrie Indonesia general
Title: Het leven in Nederlandsch-Indië. 3e druk.
Description: Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, (ca. 1910). Original boards. 166 pp. 'The title of his book, Life in the Dutch East Indies, seems innocent enough, but at the turn of the century it caused the blood of many people in the Indies to boil. A contemporary accused him of having 'dipped his pen in vitriolic acid'. Indeed, no book on the Indies so unreasonable and so rancorous as this has ever appeared before or since' (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p. 134. Cat. KITLV p.259 (second edition); Buur, Persoonlijke documenten, 554 (second edition).
Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia belletrie Indonesia general
Price: EUR 22.00 = appr. US$ 23.91 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 35655
- Book number: 35655